2015 ECON Master 求定位

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1. europe = uk / eu continent?
2. budget constraint?

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我觉得楼主再考虑一下是否读经济系的硕士。首先您已经考过了frm和cfa的一级，acca也考了，这几个证书都是业内非常认可的，只要有两年工作经验frm的证书就能拿到了。其次，不管楼主是以后从事会计还是金融行业的工作，其实对经济的背景要求也就是在经济学原理的level，中级和宏观微观实际上就是引入了微积分作为解决问题的工具来求出最优化的结论，不过您有一个定量金融的专业想必也已经涵盖了以上的知识要求。再次，现在大多数的经济学硕士项目都是以经济学博士的申请做跳板打基础的，如果楼主没有打算读博士或者搞科研，说实话与其用一到两年的时间去读书，还真的不如直接去工作，工作的话很多的东西是在学校和课本上学不到的，还有一般两三年的工作根据楼主的能力肯定就晋升到中层了。个人拙见，不喜勿喷。谢谢

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cheesechan 发表于 2014-08-04 07:14
1. europe = uk / eu continent?
2. budget constraint?

对的。不过欧洲那边我基本缩小到copenhagen Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, St. Gallen吧。uk的我刚刚开始研究。
至于scholarship，有最好啦。一直是scholarship读过来的没有还真不习惯。不过如果自费的好program也可接受。

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ucdjg 发表于 2014-08-04 08:31
我觉得楼主再考虑一下是否读经济系的硕士。首先您已经考过了frm和cfa的一级，acca也考了，这几个证书都是业内非常认可的，只要有两年工作经验frm的证书就能拿到了。其次，不管楼主是以后从事会计还是金融行业的工作，其实对经济的背景要求也就是在经济学原理的level，中级和宏观微观实际上就是引入了微积分作为解决问题的工具来求出最优化的结论，不过您有一个定量金融的专业想必也已经涵盖了以上的知识要求。再次，现在大多数的经济学硕士项目都是以经济学博士的申请做跳板打基础的，如果楼主没有打算读博士或者搞科研，说实话与其用一到两年的时间去读书，还真的不如直接去工作，工作的话很多的东西是在学校和课本上学不到的，还有一般两三年的工作根据楼主的能力肯定就晋升到中层了。个人拙见，不喜勿喷。谢谢

我多谢你的分析！我不会喷的。。。这个提议我也在想。自己也做了几个intern，下年找工作问题应该不太大。想申请master一来是有个后路如果工作不成就离开这里；二来还挺喜欢读书的。也可能最后先在这里工作然后两三年之后再去读书。工作的时候觉得自己需要什么再读说不定会好点儿。我纠结这个已经好久了，不如就两手准备着，出了结果再说。

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simon_hopkins 发表于 2014-8-4 12:13
对的。不过欧洲那边我基本缩小到copenhagen Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, St. Gallen吧 ...

你好，其实个人觉得你还是继续申请Accounting或者finance更靠谱一些，由于你本身的economics课程不多，或许只是刚刚接触觉得economics比较有意思。
另外感觉reseach的master跟偏applied的项目还是有一点点冲突的，所以申请的时候不妨多撒网，但是选项目的时候最好还是有些准备才是
最后，如果申sse的话欢迎私信~

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simon_hopkins 发表于 2014-8-4 12:13
对的。不过欧洲那边我基本缩小到copenhagen Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, St. Gallen吧 ...

As someone had been studying & considering in all of the schools mentioned by OP, it worth for me to write something here, though not sure if that's "correct" or not.

It think the ulimately what you wanna be:

1. work as an accountant: go big 4 after graduation, forgot about a master, but target for the CPA title first.

2. work in banking, finance, doing some kind of financial modeling stuffs like equity research, business valuation, and ........., i think it's better to focus on finding a job first: a bachelor is enough, a master in financ is qust as a back up if you cannot land in a relevant position. Of course you may consider a MFin/MBA/etc afterwards

3. quant fina: for some quantitative role, a bachelor in qfin is not really enough, and in quite some case a master title is highly useful for some position. this case i will consider finding a decent summer quantitative internship somewhere, and get an admission from a good financial mathematics program.

4. financial econ: somehow similar to (3), but more on theory, i.e. more research focus, and some stuffs there are not that practical. with enough empirical skills, risk and asset maanagement and etc is also possible.

5. macro: when one go to macroeconomics, prepare for a PhD. though master is enough a trainee in central bank and etc, but for any decent role, that's quite not enough. Indeed similar to (4) in sense that one likely to need a PhD to do some good research work in any institution.......

from (2) to (5), you should have different list of target application school, as in:
(2): the reputation is the most important, and also the location if you want to work afterwards
(3): a good mathematics stat computer faculty, with research interest on FM, and good connection to industry is the key
(4): better to be at a univeristy with both strong industrial reputation (for work), and strong faculty in that research area
(5): focus on the academic reputation, especially with the faculty reserch interest. good repuation in public sector is of concern too.

doesn't mean that you can target only 1 of those, but means if you have too much target (or not sure what to target) or target that differs too much, you are likely to have not enough time to prepare for them well (indeed this also means selection of undergraduate coursework, but you will be year 4 so let it be)

location is a key issue, which quite depends on how much you want to stay for work, and how long you want to study.

concerning achloarship, i think i will suggest doing it by this way:
just applying to all of the school on your list, with the scholarship, and take in in consideration as the overall cost.

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cheesechan 发表于 2014-8-4 20:24
As someone had been studying & considering in all of the schools mentioned by OP, it worth for m ...

多谢你的回复！之前两周实习搞得晕头转向，真是不好意思现在才回复你。

我觉得我现在的状态就是完全不知道想做什么，所以来开贴问问吧。虽说商科的学生一入学大抵要有个明确的目标，我之前也以为有，只是越到毕业越是不知道到底想要什么。

我个人比较倾向2，如果本科之后直接就业的话。做个两三年然后考虑要不要读MBA/Econ master and/or phd/JD(这个就真转行了）。选择读什么program也大体决定了之后的去路，也就是你说的3、4、5。说实话我对msf实在兴趣不大。再有自己性格上实在不够aggressive在投行也做不下去(就算能进去的话。。）这个也是我倾向于research一类工作的原因吧。1我之前在四大实习过几个月，也没有很喜欢，估计能不去就不去了。

我还有一年的时间，只有两门课就毕业了，这边也没有毕设也不需要paper除了找工作我就是多上几门课或者audit一些课感觉下。时间还算充裕，就自己多想想吧，决定还是要自己下的。

再次感谢！

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simon_hopkins 发表于 2014-8-17 14:20
多谢你的回复！之前两周实习搞得晕头转向，真是不好意思现在才回复你。

我觉得我现在的状态就是完全不 ...

(2) 之後兩三年再會想報msc econ or phd的人，很少，也大多數情況下不實際/化算